I have seen many questions asking how to export a file from Chrome but I have not found a good answer.
I have written a Chrome Application (Legacy Packaged Application) in which I am getting some data for the user. I just need to create some text in a Chrome window that the user can save to a file. The text would be tab-delimited text. If I use code such as what I show below then Chrome will not save the data; the Save As command is either disabled or does nothing. If we try to view the source (for diagnostic purposes at least) then Chrome crashes. Is there a way to create a window with text in it that can be saved? Or if there is a way to export a file then that would be better.
I have seen the filesystem API but as best as I understand it, it must either execute in a server or requires Chrome to be started with a special option. That makes the filesystem API too impractical.
I realize that a possible alternative is to create XML instead of plain text. I will offer XML as an alternative but I also want to provide plain text data.
This is a sample of the code I am using to create a window with text in it:
var w = window.open("BlankPage.html", "_blank", "menubar=yes", false);
var d = w.document;
d.open('text/plain', 'replace');
d.charset = "utf-8";
d.write("Hello");
d.close();
